Xingjie Ni

Xingjie Ni is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering department at the Materials Research Institute (MRI). With a focus on metasurface physics, photonics, and plasmonics, their research spans advanced optical technologies and computational imaging.

Research Trends: Recent work explores

• metasurface design for achromatic lenses and light manipulation
• machine learning-enhanced polarimetric imaging with encoding metasurfaces
• ultrathin optical devices enabling geometric image transformations
• reconfigurable liquid crystal systems for dynamic photonic applications
• electrically tunable nonlinear optics for ensemble learning
• nanoscale fabrication techniques for scalable metalenses

Grants & Projects: Active grants include

• NSF funding for Photonic Integrated Guided-Wave-Driven Metasurfaces
• NASA collaboration on Metalens Origami Deployable Lidar
• National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering support for Metasurface-Based Endoscope